Air Marshal (Retd.) Asim Suleiman is going to represent Pakistan as Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) Director General (DG) at a conference in Kathmandu, Nepal, according to news sources.

The joint action committee representing disgruntled workforce of CAA has demanded that Air Marshal (Retd.) Asim Suleiman should be stopped from working as DG CAA and some other person should be sent to Nepal to represent Pakistan CAA otherwise the committee will take independent decision.

The joint action committee says that Adviser to the Prime Minister on Aviation Sardar Mehtab Khan Abbasi had promised acceptable outcome of the issue during meeting with committee members who were also advised to hold their decisions. Sending Air Marshal (Retd.) Asim Suleiman to Nepal as DG CAA is violation of that meeting's agreement/understanding.

Today, CAA employees locked offices of authority's headquarters in Karachi. For the convenience of passengers, operations at Karachi Airport were not disturbed, said the representative of protesting employees. The protesters have threatened to expand protest to other airports/CAA offices in the country if authorities fail to respond to their demands by tomorrow evening.

On the other side, several officers of CAA on condition of anonymity told that the agenda of the protest drive is fake and bogus because some corrupt officers were behind the drive.

They said that sitting Director General has taken several powers in his hand minimizing opportunities of corruption in the authority.

They further said that sitting Director General has focused to make Islamabad new airport operational soon with his personal interest and corrupt officers are creating hurdles in the completion of the airport because the contractor are directly contacting to Director General of PCAA causing obstruction in their commission.

KARACHI: Imagine what length employees of any organization could go to press demand for a resignation of any high-up? Read this: The staffers of the Civil Aviation Authority set a bizarre precedent on Monday when they sacrificed a goat, literally they did!, to ‘get rid’ of the director general of the CAA from ruling the roost.

The CAA employees sacrificed a goat in Karachi and prayed for the termination of the director general CAA from his position.

They didn’t just sacrifice the goats and left. Comes next a unsettling announcement from the malcontents, “We will continue sacrificing goats every day until DG CAA is removed from his post.”